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Why don’t more websites use alternative domains?

13th October 2010

My answer to Why don’t more websites use alternative domains? on Quora

Because regular human beings don’t understand them, and expect everything to be a .com. Here’s an interesting post from 2007 on why Topix.net spent $1,000,000 buying the .com domain: http://www.skrenta.com/2007/03/k...

Posted 13th October 2010 at 11:49 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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